Crushing injury of lower leg (S87)

• ICD-10 Index

  • Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)

    • Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)

      • Crushing injury of lower leg (S87)

        • S87 - Crushing injury of lower leg NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.0 - Crushing injury of knee NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.00 - Crushing injury of unspecified knee NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.00XA - Crushing injury of unspecified knee, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.00XD - Crushing injury of unspecified knee, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.00XS - Crushing injury of unspecified knee, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.01 - Crushing injury of right knee NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.01XA - Crushing injury of right knee, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.01XD - Crushing injury of right knee, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.01XS - Crushing injury of right knee, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.02 - Crushing injury of left knee NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.02XA - Crushing injury of left knee, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.02XD - Crushing injury of left knee, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.02XS - Crushing injury of left knee, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.8 - Crushing injury of lower leg NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.80 - Crushing injury of unspecified lower leg NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.80XA - Crushing injury of unspecified lower leg, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.80XD - Crushing injury of unspecified lower leg, subs encntr BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.80XS - Crushing injury of unspecified lower leg, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.81 - Crushing injury of right lower leg NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.81XA - Crushing injury of right lower leg, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.81XD - Crushing injury of right lower leg, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.81XS - Crushing injury of right lower leg, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.82 - Crushing injury of left lower leg NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.82XA - Crushing injury of left lower leg, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.82XD - Crushing injury of left lower leg, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S87.82XS - Crushing injury of left lower leg, sequela BILLABLE CODE

Instructional Notations

Use Additional Code Use Additional Code
The “use additional code” indicates that a secondary code could be used to further specify the patient’s condition. This note is not mandatory and is only used if enough information is available to assign an additional code.

• code(s) for all associated injuries

Type 2 Excludes Type 2 Excludes
A type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.

• crushing injury of ankle and foot S97

7th Character Note 7th Character Note
Certain ICD-10-CM categories have applicable 7th characters. The applicable 7th character is required for all codes within the category, or as the notes in the Tabular List instruct. The 7th character must always be the 7th character in the data field. If a code that requires a 7th character is not 6 characters, a placeholder X must be used to fill in the empty characters.

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S87

7th Character 7th Character
Indicates that a seventh character is to be assigned to codes in a subcategory.

• A - initial encounter
• D - subsequent encounter
• S - sequela